Human nature. We need living people to tell us what happened the last time something happened society-wide, else we forget and repeat the same mistakes. It’s the whole hard times make strong men thing. It’s on about an 80 year cycle. The good news is that we’re right at the point in the cycle where real changes are easy to make.
Read the book The Fourth Turning for many examples of the pattern repeating.
Year’s end feels like forever away
Agreed.
Ok, so you do think the only options are “exactly the same” or “nothing alike”. No shit it’s a generalization, the discussion is about the general population of a country born within the same ~20-year timespan.
I think everyone in my generation was raised at the advent of the internet, and had 9/11 as a defining moment in their childhood. I think they entered the workforce around the Great Recession, and it affected the way they see the idea of corporate culture and their likelihood of achieving ‘The American Dream’. I think those events affected my generation differently than they do one born 40 years before, since they were at a different stage in their lives.
To ignore that is to be willfully blind. You can easily look up polling data by generation at each stage in their lives and see that each generation as a whole has different attitudes about politics, or desired income, or family preference.
So apparently you think there’s no options other than “every person in this generation is exactly the same” and “generations have no bearing on identity at all”.
Generations are raised at a similar time with similar cultural events that shaped them as a whole. To claim that the time a generation is raised does not affect them as a population is to claim that nothing that happens during people’s childhood affects their personality for the rest of their lives.
An entire generation in America was raised on Dr. Spock’s The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, another was raised on Sesame Street, does that make no difference?
One generation was raised to be afraid of stranger danger, another was kicked out of the house and told not to come back until it was dark. But to you, they’re still the same?
Class matters, but to pretend that it’s the only thing that matters is putting Marxist blinders on your reality.
I don’t know about that specifically, but he believes in simulation theory and thinks he’s the only human playing, and therefore the main character.
Reagan was a fucking actor that was reading lines, shooting him would have done nothing. They’d just find a new electable moron to read the party’s script.
My one complaint is that the shape is kind of awkward and I’ve cut off circulation in my fingers holding it
It’s “We” because “you” aren’t the subject of the article, it’s “We (the People).”
And you don’t think America is an empire? That’s a wild take on this site, most people treat that as a given.
the audio effects on casting spells actually helped my enjoyment a lot
Eldritch Blast really earned its name, I love the way the spell sounds in that game
They’re offering a second round of paid-leave-to-quit at the IRS, and a lot more employees are going to take it this time around. There’s not going to be many left.
The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats look for long-term, stable corruption while Republicans want to get as much as they can as soon as possible.
You have fun charging your phone, I’m charging the capacitors I embedded into my knuckles.
Will this become a sign of the times? Will history books a few generations from how tell of how people were so poor they couldn’t even have eggs for Easter?
I suppose that assumes that this is the low point.
All killing is murder, states are just gangs big enough to have a PR team and the ability to indoctrinate the youth into following their rules.
Good on South Carolina for making that more plain.
My brother got all the good genes, I got what was left
Socialism without an underlying set of morals beyond socialism is doomed to fail. It invites end-justifies-means to implement socialism, which taints it beyond repair.
Not by the quality of its truth but by the quantity of its violence.
Very true, but don’t disregard the quality of its truth. I’d say that most of the claims of miracles were used to justify the violence. And both can be dropped in favor of the core truth.
It did at first, but like you said, Constantine was a huge shift.
So’s the 👌hand sign, I suppose I’m going to get dogpiled for that too?
Look outside, (big ask for this website), we’re literally in hard times made by weak men.
I swear, this site is worse than 4chan about groupthink. Someone uses a slightly weak example or a cancelled idiom and all your minds just shut off and you start parroting your self selected propaganda.